I speak in public again

In today's class we have done an activity very interesting, it was in pairs and one of these pairs where a worker whose aggressive behavior was annoying the workers and the boss should have to make him change in a assertive way. I did this activity with Janos and we had to do this activity in public. I totally forgot about my shyness problem and I did it very well. It might have been the first time that I wasn't nervous. I think that I'm starting to change this thing and working it for the better.

First "presentation"

In today's class we had to do an oral presentation of our project for the 2050 aircraft, it was just the introduction and the conclusion but, as always, I was very nervous.

We started the class as always and then we begin practicing the presentation. Every minute passed I was feeling more nervous. But when the time came, I felt very self-assured. The problem was when I had to start talking, I don't know why, but my nerves attacked again. I thought I was very comfortable but… as I saw today, things can change.

Even though I thought I did it really bad, people thought that I showed our presentation very well. Actually, I didn't think that they'd think that, but I'm glad they did.

Another problem is incomming.

Today, we have talked about how to do good presentations.  It has been very productive because it is an important thing to talk in a good way to the public. Our teacher has told us that we are going to do a conference in the auditorium. It has really set of my nerves, I can stand a presentation with people of my class, but… with a lot of people that we don't know… it will be difficult to go through it without any problem.  It will be another thing that I will have to try to change.

Nonverbal communication.

In today's class we have talked about how important is the nonverbal communication and we have done an exercise in which we had to make our partner listen to us just with gestures. I think it was interesting and strange too. In my opinion I think it would have been more interesting and funny to play a game called "Los hombres lobo de Castronegro". It's a game where there are three werewolves and many other characters. The werewolves are in charge of attacking at night to the villagers, they need to decide which villager they need to kill. In the next morning, everyone must do a judgment in which they will decide or not if they are going to kill someone, trying to guess who the werewolves are. It is a very interesting game in which you can have a lot of fun.

I'm not the only one who is shy.

In today's class, the secretary was Adrián Gallego, who as secretary did it very well, but I could notice that he was very shy while doing it. Some reasons of why I noticed that were because he spoke with a very low voice, it was also hard for him to say some words even though he is very good at English and I know him pretty much for thinking that he was going to be nervous despite he didn't tell me anything. All these reasons remind me the day when I was the secretary. I think that I was as nervous as he was today. But I think that he also will have realized that it wasn't bad at all being the secretary. If someone wants to go to his blog, here's the link: http://imreadytoflyhigh.blogspot.com.es/

How to write an email correctly.

Our teacher has said to us to correct three emails and to write another two, in order to improve our writing email's ability. I think that this activity might have been productive, because most of the emails I have written were as the teacher said they weren't correct. Probably it can be something that I will thank in the future when applying for jobs, or writing emails in a company. Before of doing this I didn't know even the half of the mistakes I was doing. It has actually been very helpful.

One of my hobbies: Youtube.

In today's class we kept working in the email activity and we also saw Janos's blog. It had a funny video in it and it remind me one of my hobbies: watching videos in Youtube. Actually I probably spend between one and two hours in Youtube a day. I watch every kind of video, such as videogame, music, funny or even science videos. Actually, my favorite youtuber is Pewdiepie, he is from Switzerland and he has 6,6 million subscribers and increasing. He plays a lot of types of games, but he most plays horror games. If someone wants to know something about him here's a link to his channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/PewDiePie

It's a channel I really recommend.

Manuel Campo's conference.

Last Monday we went to the Manuel Campo's conference, which was very light too as the Pedro Duque's, but it had another way of making it. The Pedro Duque's conference were just questions, but this one, Manuel Campo talked us about the importance of talking in public even thought we were engineers. It actually seemed very similar to a normal class of communication skills, because he talked about a lot of topics that we have already seen in this class, such as the importance of talking in public or the importance of your profile photo. I was very asleep because last night I couldn't sleep quite well, so I couldn't pay much attention. But despite I was sleepy I took note from most of the things he said, it definitely was a very interesting conference. 

Pedro Duque's conference

Last week we went to a conference where Pedro Duque wanted to answer some questions. It was very light and easy to follow. Most of the conference was all those questions, and most of them were good, but there was a question that really hit Pedro Duque. It said: How did your father inspired you to do this work? Actually the question wasn't that bad, but the main problem was that his father died two years ago, so it was very hard to answer. I can imagine that must be very annoying because when I was 6 years old, I remember that my great grandmother died and it was very difficult for me to talk to people because I was too sad. Actually, Pedro Duque was able to answer the question, so he was very brave to do this.

Time to change the education system

In today's class we have done the same things as always: reading the minute, the wiki and all those things. We have finished Mind Map of how to write an email and we have also talked about the nowadays system of teaching in schools.

Everyone thought that kids in primary should have more capacity for choosing what they want to be, but I think that it is not the point. When you are a kid, you just want to be a football player, a dancer, a singer, or things like that. If we all say to our children to do that, there won't be anyone who works in engineering or medicine. So I think that the primary school is ok how it is, but what we should change is the last two years. In England, the last two years, you decide what you want to study, but not anymore in Spain, we have to study all those subjects that we will forget in just a few days. I think this must be another change we should try to do.

I changed the blog!!

In yesterday's class, we reviewed my minute and this blog so they could have a look at it. They thought that it expressed sadness, when actually I wanted to express seriousness, but anyway I didn't looked to more types of blog, so I decided to look for other's that could express seriousness. I found this one which is actually very nice and not that depressing. When they told me that, I could see the point about why they were telling it to me, it was a very depressing environment for a blog. 

First accomplishment. I'm the secretary!

In today's lesson, I was the secretary, and it wasn't that bad! I thought it was going to be very uncomfortable but, it wasn't. I think the worst part was when I had to read the minutes and the blogs, because I was nervous. But as soon as the time passed by, my nerves just disappeared,  actually, the class was faster than other days. I have really enjoyed it, despite it remind me my first conference, when I was 12 years old.

 I think I'm starting to lose my shyness, something that as I said, is one of my main problems. Probably, the only con of being the secretary it is the extra work, but the rest of the things are clearly pros, it has been an experience to advise.

My problem attacks again

In today's class, we have been most of the time working on the next activity (the interview to Pedro Duque). We have been doing the biography and prepared some questions for him on Friday. I am very excited about this conference, because his job it would be the one that I want to work in, it would be fantastic to be an astronaut, who hasn't dreamt about it when you were a child? I could also have been the responsible of interviewing him, but my problem that i have already mentioned of shyness just made me say no. Probably I will regret this decision, but I think that the important thing is that you shouldn't care if you fall, you always have to get up. In this case, for a future, I will remember what I did today and I will try to do my best.

Things we should start to change

There have been a lot of themes in today’s class, 04/04/2013, but the one that has interested me a lot has been the video projection. This video was about creativity in schools and how we have been losing it day by day. It was a very interesting topic which has made me think about it. In the video said that the today’s education is being very monotone, they just let the kids study math’s, literature… but they never let them study what they want, if they want to study dance, let them do it, if they want to sing, to be an artist or whatever, let them do it, or they will never be happy in their lives. Recently, I saw a video on YouTube, where someone said that when he was a child, he wanted to sing, even thought he wasn’t going to be rich, but he prefers to do what he likes than to be millionaire sitting on a chair just wasting his life. I think that is one of the things of this society that we should start to change, because I think that the mainly important thing in our lives is to be happy with ourselves.

Getting to know the subject.

Today, 3/4/2013, our teacher has showed us how this subject is going to be and I have noticed that we are going to have to do a lot of presentations, something obvious because of the name of the subject: communication abilities. I suppose that it is going to be a subject that is going to get hard for me due to what I said in the last post, but I think that there is nothing you can’t do if you do an effort for it. This situation has happened three times already in this university, in the first term I had to do a presentation for calculus and chemistry and in the second term for algebra and all of them went very well although I was very nervous. I think one of my goals for this term is to forget about this “stage fright” with the help of this subject, let’s see if it is possible.

First day, first problem.

In our first class, 2/4/2013, we have had to sit with someone that we didn´t know and present him to the rest of the classmates. It has been an exercise where a lot of people have had to forget about their shame and talk to all the class, I was one of those because of I am very shy since I was a child. This time was very easy because everyone had to do it and we were just 20 students. It has also been funny at the end!! This class has remembered me an experience when I was 12 years old, in which I had to talk to 200 people during 15 minutes, I was extremely shy on that situation as you can imagine.